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human being ought to be placed: they had taken their lessons
from the Treasury: I mean always (for there I stop for the
present) the Treasure of that day. In that impressive School
of despotism and disorder, they had learnt to understand - and
to understand but too plainly - that the improbability or probability
of impunity, is the true and only practical measure of
right and wrong. —Yes— that was their misfortune —- mediately
or immediately, they had held converse with Mr Pitt. From
him it is they must have learnt, that the rules necessary
to be observed in dealing with men who had once been
Convicts are of no tighter pressure than those which shortly
afterwards the same Right Honourable person found a convenience
in observing, towards one whose humble ambition it had
been to moderate meliorate the lot of Convicts: and that where power
is impregnable good faith is either not worth the keeping, or
that, when thus intrenched, it admitts of an open, & inexorable,
and pretenceless violation of undenied assurances & engagements.

Think not however, my Lord, that I mean to point
out a Governor Wall in the improved Colony. I see not— I
never have seen— any such person there. — Too little regard for
engagements — a little occasional passion— too constant haughtiness—
but still no studied cruelty.— No, my Lord: — the true Wall
is the Treasury Wall here at home: the man who, after organizing
ruin by interested perfidy, could sit down feasting on it for
seven years together, in vengeance for the injuries he had done.

In this system of illegal government is contained a
perfectly independent ground of imputation, distinct from that
which respects the mode, in which the Colony was undertaken
to be founded. Undertaking to establish a government in the
settlement

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	297	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d23 f79 / d24 f80
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37830
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